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Abstract

This paper explores how interface environments have an influence on novice users’ performance in social virtual worlds (SVWs), which are emerging user-centric three-dimensional cyberspaces. Despite their early popularity, SVWs have experienced that numerous new users leave the cyberspaces soon before they become long-term users. One possible reason is that unfamiliar interfaces of SVWs can be a barrier to novice users’ adaptation of the technology. To understand a role of interfaces in the users’ assimilation of SVWs, we examine an impact of three interface factors (presence, affordance, and feedback) on performance which is regarded as a yardstick for users’ adaptation of SVWs. Forty participants were recruited and went through one-hour experimental sessions with seven tasks in Second Life; they were also asked to answer a questionnaire. Findings indicate that while affordance and feedback are significant factors influencing novice users’ performance, presence has no impact on their performance.

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도서관, 기록관과 박물관은 인류의 문화유산을 수집하여 정리함으로써 당대의 인류가 이용할 수 있도록 지원하고, 잘 보관하였다가 후대의 인류에게 전승한다는 공통의 사명을 갖고 있다. 이들 문화유산기관은 간행물과 기록물, 3차원 객체 등 상이한 컬렉션 수집의 전통을 기반으로 분화와 전문화를 거듭하며 발전하여 왔다. 그러나 디지털 환경은 이러한 구분이 더 이상 큰 의미를 갖지 않는 시대를 예고하고 있다. 이 연구는 문헌연구와 집단면담을 통해 도서관, 기록관과 박물관의 차이점과 공통점을 고찰함으로써 우리나라의 문화유산기관 간 협력의 필요성과 가능성을 밝히고자 하는 목적으로 수행되었다. 디지털 큐레이션과 디지털 보존 등 원래의 사명을 달성하기 위해서는 반드시 수행해야 할 새로운 책무에 대해서도 논의하였다.

Abstract

Libraries, archives and museums share the common mission of collecting and providing access to cultural heritage for the use of both current and future generations. Although the evolution of these cultural heritage institutions have taken place separately, distinguishing publications, records and 3-dimensional objects, it is expected that the pervasive digital environment will not allow the distinction remain effective for long. The present study aims at exploring commonalities and differences of the cultural heritage institutions and illuminating the necessities and possibilities of collaboration among them.